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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Shahrokh Zamani, labour activist in alarming situation

According to the Communiqué number 55 from the “Shahrokh Zamani Defence
Committee“, he needs urgent help and support. He needs an attorney to examine
his case record and bring his case to the internal and foreign instances in
order to force the judiciary and prison authorities at least to abide by their
own laws. The international solidarity
and attention to his case will put the regime under pressure and prevent further
tyranny.

He
has to endure 10 to 20 days in a month ban of visitors, ban of phone call to
his family and he is transferred from one to the other prison every few months.

In
August this year Shahrokh Zamani was deported from prison in city Tabriz to
Yazd central prison, later he was returned to the central prison of Tabriz. He
has been in quarantine ward of prison for two days and then transferred to the criminal
and addicted ward, where the drug dealers are held.

On October 18th he was again deported from Tabriz prison to ward 4 of
the Gohardasht prison in city Karaj. This is the ward, where the political
prisoners are held and is controlled by the Pasdaran and the intelligent
ministry. Since then he had no contact with the outside.

Shahrokh
Zamani a is house painter and member of the Committee to Pursue the
Establishment of Workers Organizations, a group campaigning for the
establishment of independent trade unions in Iran; he is currently serving the 11
years prison sentences in Tabriz prison, north-west Iran.